Medicinal Fiction

on tradwives, smut, and Brian Evenson (plus, Palestinian fiction recs)

In the decades following its invention, the novel form and its readers were denigrated, associated with feminine indiscipline and frivolity. The form was viewed as a kind of weapon lobbed into the delicate minds of young women, filling them with various notions of sexuality and sensationalism and violence. 

You can see the negotiation of these attitudes …